The new Twitter alternative: Substack Notes
Contrasting the start of Twitter in 2006 and the start of Substack’s Notes in 2023
Contrasting the start of Twitter in 2006 and the start of Substack’s Notes in 2023
For real this time, I think I’m giving up Twitter in favor of blogging and micro-blogging. Ok, so here’s my first (again) micro-blog post in my notepad. I signed up for the Google I/O developer conference on May 10, 2023 — and I got this virtual badge.
How a 110-inch PDF makes for a better reading experience
Your Google Translate phrases will influence your Google personalized newsfeed
With so many of us working remotely, we miss the small little things about sharing a common physical space. Things like the office whiteboard.
While browsing through a PDF of a 1985 Chicago Tribune, I thought, “this is what the internet was like in 1985”
If you enjoy contemplative places online, give Minus a try.
That Twitter composition box. The small field allows for only 280 characters. Is that restricting?
What I wrote in the New York Times survey for how I listen to podcasts.
Have you ever listened to music and a podcast at the same time?
Test the position of the mic, and use a microphone fuzzy.
If you ever need an injection of positiveness, try this Twitter trick that’ll show tweets with the word “love” from people you follow.
In our age of reading everything online, do you ever miss underlining and annotating in print? Here’s a solution that I use.
I love reading 14 kindergarteners’ response to the question of the day
Whenever I need to type in a timestamp, I just click on my handy app in the dock.
Twitter let me sign up using the name @christiannnotebook but then automatically shortened it to @christiannoteb2 without me knowing during the signup process.
Do you ever use Markdown? In the past 2.5 years since I’ve been doing development work at Tribune, I keep a running log/diary/scratchpad of the progress and my thought process. I was keeping that as a doc in Google Drive. Now I’m writing it as plain text in Markdown format, so the log/diary/scratchpad is lighter. …
During a weekly project call on Monday, our developer asked about a particular feature on the wireframes I designed. The feature is on the existing site we are reconstructing. But this morning I couldn’t find that feature. I started to draft a response to our developer to say to kill that feature. Just now my …
Today Google sent me a reminder email that they will be eliminating email subscriptions from Feedburner. Once upon a time I used Feedburner to send email newsletters from spudart.org. This was before Google owned Feedburner. Feedburner started in 2004. Google bought them in 2007. I must have started using Feedburner sometime between those years. Google …
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